Friday, January 30, 2009

Updates dujour

New updates for Tango. no problems so far, reboot and everything goes smooth.

2009-01-30 14:15:18 status installed man-db 2.5.2-2
2009-01-30 14:15:19 status installed linux-libc-dev 2.6.27-11.27
2009-01-30 14:15:19 status installed libc6-dev 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu8
2009-01-30 14:15:19 status installed cpp-4.3 4.3.2-1ubuntu12
2009-01-30 14:15:19 status installed libgomp1 4.3.2-1ubuntu12
2009-01-30 14:15:19 status installed gcc-4.3 4.3.2-1ubuntu12
2009-01-30 14:15:20 status installed libc6-i686 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu8
2009-01-30 14:15:39 status installed linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic 2.6.27-11.27
2009-01-30 14:15:39 status installed busybox-initramfs 1:1.10.2-1ubuntu7
2009-01-30 14:15:39 status installed libldap-2.4-2 2.4.11-0ubuntu6.1
2009-01-30 14:15:39 status installed libgs8 8.63.dfsg.1-0ubuntu6.2
2009-01-30 14:15:47 status installed ghostscript 8.63.dfsg.1-0ubuntu6.2
2009-01-30 14:15:47 status installed ghostscript-x 8.63.dfsg.1-0ubuntu6.2
2009-01-30 14:15:47 status installed libnautilus-extension1 1:2.24.1-0ubuntu2
2009-01-30 14:15:47 status installed linux-headers-2.6.27-11 2.6.27-11.27
2009-01-30 14:15:48 status installed linux-headers-2.6.27-11-generic 2.6.27-11.27
2009-01-30 14:15:56 status installed nautilus-data 1:2.24.1-0ubuntu2
2009-01-30 14:15:58 status installed nautilus 1:2.24.1-0ubuntu2
2009-01-30 14:15:58 status installed nvidia-173-modaliases 173.14.12-1-0ubuntu5.1
2009-01-30 14:15:58 status installed nvidia-96-modaliases 96.43.09-0ubuntu1.1
2009-01-30 14:15:58 status installed g++-4.3 4.3.2-1ubuntu12
2009-01-30 14:15:58 status installed libstdc++6-4.3-dev 4.3.2-1ubuntu12
2009-01-30 14:15:58 status installed libc6 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu8

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SU Mystery Theater (4)


A couple of updates for Thor, everything seems fine after a reboot.

There was a little moment of panic, as at the Os X login screen the USB keyboard (my beloved Happy Hacking one, which I finally got my hands on) with the mouse attached, stopped working, first time it did that so far.

No idea what was that all about, after a unplugging and re-plugging the keyboard, everything is kosher.

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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Hardware for the Hammer God

New stuff for Thor, anything to keep it cozy and running happy.
Two little things, but the difference they are making is amazing...

- A new video card
One of those Non Apple, a "flashed" one; got it thru Ebay while in the US on vacation, some 80 U$S, yeah, not the cheapest, but the difference is effing notable.
No drivers whatsoever, but, if I reinstall Tiger from my retail DVD, I have to use the previous video card until I upgrade the system to version 10.4.3.

Apple nVIDIA GeForce 6200 256MB DDR2 AGP G4 & G5 NEW


- A PCI card with USB ports
But, not only USB ports, USB version 2.0!!! The palsy 2 ports that Thor originally has, but alas, these are 2.0, the connection flies.
This one cost me something like 12 U$S on a Tiger Direct store, I was really worried that it would not work on Os X (even tho, the box stated that it was supported, I was not the least confident).
It came with a CD with drivers, but I did not used it; installed, reboot and use it.

Ultra ULT31500 USB 2.0 PCI Card - 6 Port, Hi-Speed USB 2.0 (4 External / 2 Internal)

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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Updates dujour

Gobs of updates for Tango today... I have it a bit of forgotten I think...
Everything went smooth after the mandatory reboot with the install.


2009-01-28 14:48:51 status installed linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic 2.6.27-11.25
2009-01-28 14:49:04 status installed linux-backports-modules-2.6.27-11-generic 2.6.27-11.12
2009-01-28 14:49:05 status installed linux-restricted-modules-common 2.6.27-11.16
2009-01-28 14:49:19 status installed linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-11-generic 2.6.27-11.16
2009-01-28 14:49:20 status installed libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-10.1ubuntu2.1
2009-01-28 14:49:20 status installed vim-common 1:7.1.314-3ubuntu3.1
2009-01-28 14:49:21 status installed vim-tiny 1:7.1.314-3ubuntu3.1
2009-01-28 14:49:21 status installed libisc44 1:9.5.0.dfsg.P2-1ubuntu3.1
2009-01-28 14:49:21 status installed libdns43 1:9.5.0.dfsg.P2-1ubuntu3.1
2009-01-28 14:49:21 status installed libisccc40 1:9.5.0.dfsg.P2-1ubuntu3.1
2009-01-28 14:49:21 status installed libisccfg40 1:9.5.0.dfsg.P2-1ubuntu3.1
2009-01-28 14:49:21 status installed libbind9-40 1:9.5.0.dfsg.P2-1ubuntu3.1
2009-01-28 14:49:22 status installed liblwres40 1:9.5.0.dfsg.P2-1ubuntu3.1
2009-01-28 14:49:22 status installed bind9-host 1:9.5.0.dfsg.P2-1ubuntu3.1
2009-01-28 14:49:22 status installed dnsutils 1:9.5.0.dfsg.P2-1ubuntu3.1
2009-01-28 14:49:24 status installed ufw 0.23.3
2009-01-28 14:49:30 status installed acpi-support 0.114-0intrepid2
2009-01-28 14:49:30 status installed libatspi1.0-0 1.24.0-0ubuntu3.8.10.1
2009-01-28 14:49:35 status installed at-spi 1.24.0-0ubuntu3.8.10.1
2009-01-28 14:49:36 status installed python-pyatspi 1.24.0-0ubuntu3.8.10.1
2009-01-28 14:49:36 status installed libcups2 1.3.9-2ubuntu6.1
2009-01-28 14:49:37 status installed libcupsimage2 1.3.9-2ubuntu6.1
2009-01-28 14:49:37 status installed libpoppler3 0.8.7-1ubuntu0.1
2009-01-28 14:49:37 status installed poppler-utils 0.8.7-1ubuntu0.1
2009-01-28 14:49:37 status installed libgs8 8.63.dfsg.1-0ubuntu6.1
2009-01-28 14:49:47 status installed ghostscript 8.63.dfsg.1-0ubuntu6.1
2009-01-28 14:49:48 status installed cups-common 1.3.9-2ubuntu6.1
2009-01-28 14:49:54 status installed cups 1.3.9-2ubuntu6.1
2009-01-28 14:49:54 status installed cups-client 1.3.9-2ubuntu6.1
2009-01-28 14:49:55 status installed cups-bsd 1.3.9-2ubuntu6.1
2009-01-28 14:49:56 status installed libedataserver1.2-11 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-01-28 14:49:56 status installed libcamel1.2-14 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-01-28 14:49:56 status installed libebackend1.2-0 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-01-28 14:49:56 status installed libebook1.2-9 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-01-28 14:49:56 status installed libecal1.2-7 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-01-28 14:49:56 status installed libedata-book1.2-2 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-01-28 14:49:56 status installed libedata-cal1.2-6 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-01-28 14:49:56 status installed libegroupwise1.2-13 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-01-28 14:49:56 status installed libgdata1.2-1 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-01-28 14:49:56 status installed libgdata-google1.2-1 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-01-28 14:49:57 status installed evolution-data-server-common 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-01-28 14:49:57 status installed evolution-data-server 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-01-28 14:49:57 status installed libedataserverui1.2-8 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-01-28 14:49:57 status installed libexchange-storage1.2-3 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-01-28 14:49:57 status installed evolution-common 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-01-28 14:50:06 status installed evolution 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-01-28 14:50:14 status installed evolution-exchange 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-01-28 14:50:16 status installed evolution-plugins 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-01-28 14:50:16 status installed ghostscript-x 8.63.dfsg.1-0ubuntu6.1
2009-01-28 14:50:23 status installed gnome-power-manager 2.24.0-0ubuntu8.2
2009-01-28 14:50:24 status installed libopal-2.2 2.2.11~dfsg1-4ubuntu1
2009-01-28 14:50:24 status installed libpoppler-glib3 0.8.7-1ubuntu0.1
2009-01-28 14:50:25 status installed libpulse0 0.9.10-2ubuntu9.3
2009-01-28 14:50:25 status installed libpulse-browse0 0.9.10-2ubuntu9.3
2009-01-28 14:50:25 status installed libpulsecore5 0.9.10-2ubuntu9.3
2009-01-28 14:50:25 status installed libwbclient0 2:3.2.3-1ubuntu3.4
2009-01-28 14:50:25 status installed libsmbclient 2:3.2.3-1ubuntu3.4
2009-01-28 14:50:25 status installed libv4l-0 0.5.7-1~intrepid1
2009-01-28 14:50:26 status installed linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic 2.6.27.11.14
2009-01-28 14:50:26 status installed linux-image-generic 2.6.27.11.14
2009-01-28 14:50:26 status installed linux-restricted-modules-generic 2.6.27.11.14
2009-01-28 14:50:26 status installed linux-generic 2.6.27.11.14
2009-01-28 14:50:26 status installed linux-headers-2.6.27-11 2.6.27-11.25
2009-01-28 14:50:28 status installed linux-headers-2.6.27-11-generic 2.6.27-11.25
2009-01-28 14:50:28 status installed linux-headers-generic 2.6.27.11.14
2009-01-28 14:50:28 status installed linux-libc-dev 2.6.27-11.25
2009-01-28 14:50:28 status installed ntpdate 1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-6ubuntu2.2
2009-01-28 14:51:15 status installed nvidia-177-kernel-source 177.82-0ubuntu0.1
2009-01-28 14:51:15 status installed nvidia-177-modaliases 177.82-0ubuntu0.1
2009-01-28 14:51:18 status installed nvidia-glx-177 177.82-0ubuntu0.1
2009-01-28 14:51:18 status installed openssl 0.9.8g-10.1ubuntu2.1
2009-01-28 14:51:19 status installed pulseaudio 0.9.10-2ubuntu9.3
2009-01-28 14:51:19 status installed pulseaudio-esound-compat 0.9.10-2ubuntu9.3
2009-01-28 14:51:19 status installed pulseaudio-module-gconf 0.9.10-2ubuntu9.3
2009-01-28 14:51:19 status installed pulseaudio-module-hal 0.9.10-2ubuntu9.3
2009-01-28 14:51:19 status installed pulseaudio-utils 0.9.10-2ubuntu9.3
2009-01-28 14:51:19 status installed pulseaudio-module-x11 0.9.10-2ubuntu9.3
2009-01-28 14:51:25 status installed samba-common 2:3.2.3-1ubuntu3.4
2009-01-28 14:51:25 status installed smbclient 2:3.2.3-1ubuntu3.4
2009-01-28 14:51:25 status installed transmission-common 1.34-0ubuntu2.2
2009-01-28 14:51:26 status installed transmission-gtk 1.34-0ubuntu2.2
2009-01-28 14:51:26 status installed xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.9.0+git20081003.f9826a56-0ubuntu2.1
2009-01-28 14:51:27 status installed xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.9.0+git20081003.f9826a56-0ubuntu2.1
2009-01-28 14:51:27 status installed xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.4.1-1ubuntu10.3
2009-01-28 14:51:27 status installed xterm 235-1ubuntu1.1
2009-01-28 14:51:29 status installed libc6 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7

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Trantor takes a bow

Indeed, vacations are over (but the effing summer is not even aware of that... Weather in Bs. As. is -as usually is- a complete piece of crap)

The little laptop that could, my beloved Trantor, took once again a hell of a beating, going from here to there and here again, luckily, the small metal chunk still holds it like a super champ.

Now Trantor might rest for a while, but it is time for Thor to rise again.

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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Vacation weather (II)

More pictures from what was my last day on Boston, effing snow up to my wazoo.
I don't have (unfortunately) much experience with snowy weather, but I was sure my flight it was going to be delayed, if not cancelled for good; but, alas, after spraying the plane with glycol (the last picture) we were able to leave.

  

  

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Saturday, January 17, 2009

Vacation hardware (II)


More vacation sex hardware.
My beloved Trantor, the PowerBook Beast, hooked to a kindly gifted Apple monitor.

To my surprise, life is good at 1024 x 768!

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Vacation weather


The trip goes on and on...

Boston right now, and for the last few days, I haven't being more effing cold in my effing life, the place -during winter at least- is amazing.

Meanwhile, in the old and beloved Bs. As. the temperature will be near 37 degrees today; followed with the occasional thunderstorm and "drop" on the temperature that follows.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Washington


What a week to be in Washington.

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